Apoha
Subtitle: Buddhist nominalsim and human cognition
By: edited by Mark Siderits, Tom Tillemans, and Arindam Chakrabarti
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780231153607; 9780231153614; 9780231527385
Subjects: Negation (Logic); Nominalism; Buddhist logic
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How to talk about ineffable things : Dignāga and Dhārma-kirti on apoha / Tom Tillemans; title: Dignāga's apoha theory : its presuppositions and main theoretical implications / Ole Pind; title: Key features of Dhārma-kirti's apoha theory / John Dunne; title: Dhārma-kirti's discussion of circularity / Pascale Hugon; title: Apoha theory as an approach to understanding human cognition / Sh. Katsura; title: The apoha theory as referred to in the Nyyamañjar / Masaaki Hattori; title: Constructing the content of awareness events / Parimal G. Patil; title: The apoha theory of meaning : a critical account / Prabal Kumar Sen; title: Apoha as a naturalized account of concept formation / Georges Dreyfus; title: Apoha, feature-placing and sensory content / Jonardon Ganeri; title: Funes and categorization in an abstraction-free world / Amita Chatterjee; title: Apoha semantics : some simpleminded questions and doubts / Bob Hale; title: Classical semantics and apoha semantics / Brendan S. Gillon; title: Rughna by dusk / Mark Siderits.